Reuters in fact reports about a new partnership between the two around cloud computing:

Under the pact, LG will introduce monitors integrated with Microsoft software. The monitors will function as virtual computers, allowing multiple users to run programs off a single standard PC, LG said…

The alliance will primarily target the market for virtualization solutions for educational institutions, aiming to become a leader in the segment with a 25 percent share in 2012…

LG and Microsoft will also team up to introduce monitors for cloud computing, a technology that allows users to access data and software over the Internet…

This may turn LG monitors in so-called zero clients and significantly reduce the complexity to setup VDI environments. Over time, the back-end infrastructure may become more than just a Hyper-V virtual data center in the same LAN: it may become Windows Azure, the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) public cloud computing facility that Microsoft promised to turn into an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud too.

Update: Just a few hours after this post, Microsoft confirmed that the alliance is all about RemoteFX for VDI, adding a few important details:

…Yesterday, LG and Microsoft announced an agreement to collaborate on the development and marketing of the LG Network Monitor, a multi-user computing solution that will integrate with RemoteFX. Under the agreement, LG will introduce a new line of network monitors with RemoteFX in mid-2011.

The prospect of seeing LCD displays in the market next year that will be enabled for RemoteFX decoding means that customers will have even more form factors to choose from when determining the right access device for a VDI or session virtualization environment: rich clients, thin clients, ultra-lightweight clients, and now also network monitors…

What Microsoft doesn’t mention is the cloud computing part. For Network Monitor to work on a DaaS scenario, RemoteFX should be optimized for WAN, which is not today. Maybe this is why Microsoft and LG plans a release in mid-2011.

Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure for year 2015, once more positioning VMware and Microsoft in the leaders Quadrant.
No surprises in the leaders quadrant, as…

Parallels announced the availability of Parallels Mac Management 4.0 for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), extending its range of capabilities to Mac computers.
This new release increases the flexibility…

Oracle has announced to have released version 5.0 Candidate 1 (RC1) for its virtualization platform VM VirtualBox. The release brings enhancement and bug fixes to the previous versions, improving stability…

Network virtualization is one of the hot topics within the OpenStack community. Last week japanese startup Midokura focused on network virtualization announced the assignment of Takashi Yamamoto as OpenStack…

EMC has acquired Virtustream, a Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider originally funded among the others from SAP for 1.2 billion US dollars. Virtustream also provides a Cloud Management Platform…